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& Wind - Incidentally..
Have you seen the new series of Dr Who? I imagine
anybody that had any affection for the old series might’ve
made an effort to see at least a couple of episodes. The ABC is
running the old series during the week – in tonight’s
episode Tom Baker, with his glorious mop of curls and penchant for
ludicrously long scarves, transmogrified into the actor Peter Davison,
(All Creatures Great & Small, At Home With The Brathwaites),
as a result of the nefarious doings of The Master, the Doctors'
Professor Moriarty.
I don’t think Davison’s rather testy Doctor was embraced
by Who fans as much as Baker’s more tongue-in-cheek characterisation,
even though I suspect Baker felt he was bigger than the part on
occasions, and sometimes took liberties that threatened the viewers’
fragile suspension of disbelief, let alone the notoriously fragile
BBC sets.
While we’re talking about the old Doctor Who series though,
there’s one aspect that people rarely mention, but which I’m
sure turned off some of its potential audience altogether. My sister-in-law
alerted me to it |
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- (cont)
when the series was having its first airings in the ‘70s and
‘80s. Being a rather undiscriminating Sci Fi fan in those
days, I asked her if she liked it, and to my surprise she said that
while she never watched it, she loathed it.
Apparently the 6.30 – 7.00 time slot coincided with her making
the family dinner, (or ‘tea’ as we Kiwi expats would
have it), and it turned out read
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